Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Monday, June 20, 2016

Want to Remember Something? Workout 4 Hours After Learning to Help Retention

How will your doctors and therapists use this to create SPECIFIC stroke rehab protocols? I'm guessing never.
http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2016/06/want-remember-something-workout-4-hours-after-learning-help-retention?

It’s known that good sleep is important for memory formation, but a new study suggests that delayed exercise can also help boost retention of newly learned memories.
The waiting game is key to the improvement, as hitting the gym immediately after learning doesn’t result in the same benefits, according to the findings published June 16 in Current Biology
For the study researchers brought in 72 people of average fitness and taught them 90 picture-location associations, where they learned where certain objects had appeared on the screen.  The participants were then split into three groups: one-third performed 35 minutes of interval training on an exercise bike immediately after learning, one-third waited four hours and then exercised, and the last group did not perform any exercise.  The biking exercise was at an intensity of up to 80 percent of the participants’ maximum heart rate.
Two days later the participants returned and underwent brain MRI’s as they were tested on how much they remembered from the pictures.  There was no difference in retention between the group that exercised immediately and those who abstained from working out.  Interestingly, those that exercised four hours after learning remembered almost 10 percent more material than the other groups.
“Our results suggest that appropriately timed physical exercise can improve long-term memory and highlight the potential of exercise as an intervention in educational and clinical settings,” the researchers concluded.
However, what the exact optimal time for exercise after learning is not yet known.  A longer or shorter delay may have better, or worse results.
The researchers also say that the cause of this effect on memory is not entirely clear yet, however they suggest that it may be the result of naturally occurring chemical compounds known as catecholamines, such as dopamine and norepinephrine.  Animal studies previously suggested that catecholamines can improve memory consolidation and that exercise can boost these hormones.
“These proteins help stabilizing new memory traces, which would otherwise be lost,” Dr. Guillen Fernadez, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at Radboud University Medical Center told The Huffington Post.  “Physical exercise is at the start of this sequence, because it is accompanied by the release of dopamine and norepinephrine.”
Up next the researchers plan to set up a similar experiment to understand the molecular mechanism of exercise and its influence on learning and memory, and further investigate the ideal timing.

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